dress rehearsal

noun

1. 彩排
   the final practice of a play in the theatre, using the clothes and lights that will be used for the real performance
   1. The earlier protests had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution.
      早期的抗议仅仅是大革命开始前的预演。

1. (正式演出前的最后)彩排
   The dress rehearsal of a play, opera, or show is the final rehearsal before it is performed, in which the performers wear their costumes and the lights and scenery are all used as they will be in the performance.
2. N-COUNT (事件的)预演,彩排
   You can describe an event as a dress rehearsal for a later, more important event when it indicates how the later event will be.
   1. These elections, you could almost say, are a dress rehearsal for the real elections.
      你几乎可以说,这些选举是真正选举前的一次彩排。

1. These elections, you could almost say, are a dress rehearsal for the real elections.
   你几乎可以说，这些选举是真正选举前的一次彩排。
2. The actors were metamorphosed into a living tapestry of color at the dress rehearsal
   带妆彩排的时候，演员们变幻出一幅活生生的锦绣画卷。
3. The weakpoints of the play became apparent in dress rehearsal.
   在彩排中，这出戏的不足之处才暴露出来。
4. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
   我明白了人生不是一次彩排，今天是你唯一能把握的。
5. Life on earth is just the dress rehearsal before the real production.
   人生在世，其实只是彩排，为未来公演之日作准备。
6. The overall cost of a wedding includes the venue, wedding planner, band and DJ, photographer, florist, videographer, dress, cake, ceremony site and musicians, invitations, limousine, favors, rehearsal dinner and engagement ring.
   婚礼花销包括婚宴场地、婚庆策划、乐队及主持人、摄像师、鲜花、录像师、礼服、婚礼蛋糕、仪式地点、乐师、喜帖、婚车、礼品、排练晚宴和订婚戒指等等。
7. What do you think? Like some kind of dress rehearsal?
   你认为呢？像是场彩排？
8. NEW YORK-Just weeks before the first man shot into outer space in1961, the Soviets launched a dress rehearsal with a duplicate of the space capsule carrying a cosmonaut mannequin and a live dog.
   纽约&在1961年第一个人首次进入外太空之前仍几周时，苏联进行了一次彩排，通过一个复制的太空舱装载了一个宇航员人体模特和一只活着的狗。
9. At the dress rehearsal the hero couldn't be got into the armor he was supposed to wear.
   彩排时，男主角穿不上他应该穿的盔甲。
10. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
    我学会了爱的旅程，而不是终点。我知道这不是一次彩排，今天是你唯一能把握的。
11. But the market turmoil may be a dress rehearsal for the real crisis that will emerge when the economy is in poorer shape.
    但是，市场的混乱可能预计着一场真正的危机，当经济形势再趋恶劣，这场危机就会来临。
12. Any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass. The audience behaved indecorously as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.
    叶子围绕轴线非常有规则地排列，仿佛指示基本方位的罗盘。这些观众举止随便，仿佛这场音乐会是一场非正式的彩排。
13. The dress you wore to your rehearsal dinner.
    你在婚礼晚宴排练时穿的衣服。
14. A smooth dress rehearsal augured well for the play.
    顺利的服装排练预示着演出成功。
15. The audience behaved indecorously as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.
    这些观众举止随便，仿佛这场音乐会是一场非正式的彩排。
16. Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date.
    许多人沉迷于对未来的幻想中。现在的生活，对他们而言，就像是未来生活的彩排。
17. No dress rehearsal, no duplicate.
    没有彩排，没有重复。
18. Rural life of the old one-way ticket for a one-way ticket, there is no dress rehearsal.
    人生旧乡一张有去无回的单程票，没有彩排。
19. The Asian fund management industry has faced many bouts of extreme volatility in the past and indeed survived a dress rehearsal of the current global banking and credit crisis in the late 1990s.
    过去，亚洲基金管理业面临过许多轮极度动荡，并渡过了当前这场全球银行业和信贷危机在上世纪90年代末的一次彩排。
20. At least one dress rehearsal should be performed in dark twilight.
    至少应在晨昏时进行一项实际操作练习。
21. The performers for the opening ceremonies, going through a full dress rehearsal on Wednesday night.
    星期二晚上，开幕式的演员进行了一次完整的带妆彩排。
22. H'm, I believe, believe dress rehearsal of life I would be live good everyday of the spot!
    嗯，我相信，相信没有彩排的人生我会直播好每天的现场！
23. The famine in Ethiopia in the80's was just a tiny dress rehearsal. A few trucks of rice won't cut it next time.
    上世纪80年代埃塞俄比亚的饥荒只不过是一场小小的彩排。下一次，几卡车米就不会再够吃了。
24. Without seeing with my own eyes of the grand performance at the opening ceremony, brilliant fireworks during the dress rehearsal have fascinated me with joy.
    虽然还没有亲眼目睹开幕式的盛大演出，但彩排时的绚丽烟花已足以令我万分憧憬。
25. I have to dress rehearsal in these few days.
    这几天我必须要彩排了。
26. Life there is no dress rehearsal, everything is live.
    人生没有彩排，一切都是现场直播！
27. The new play's nearly ready-we're doing the dress rehearsal tonight.
    新剧接近完成&我们今晚要做彩排。
28. All of us were invited to sit in on the dress rehearsal.
    我们被一起请去观看彩排。
29. Following the dress rehearsal, there is time for one more meeting, when people involved in producing the program may suggest final changes.
    彩排之后，还要花时间再开一个会，在会上，参加节目制作的人员也许会提出最后的修改意见。

noun

1. a full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performance